Our trip ends tomorrow

But the real journey starts when we get home!

Well this will be my last entry from China. It has been the most amazing trip of our lives and obviously one we will tell Keira about one day. We have the best souvenir you could have, a beautiful little girl. Everyone in our group has been wonderful and the Chinese people were so nice to us. Our guide and coordinator were fantastic too and helped with the adjustment issues and medical issues we all ran into as well as showing us some great things around Guangzhou.

Keira is a member of our family now just as if she was our biological child. We want all our family and friends to meet her very soon and know her as she begins her life in the US. If she exhibits 1/10 the charm, personality, intelligence and sweetness she has shown us over the last two weeks, you will fall in love with her just as much as we have. See you soon

Photo session for our adoption group

Keira's US Visa has been approved!!!!

Our little girl's visa has been approved by the US consulate. Tomorrow we take an oath and receive the visa so we can leave with her at 9:00 Friday night!

Keira in her traditional Chinese red silk pajamas

Keira models her red silk pajamas in preparation for our group photo tomorrow.

Baiyun Mountain and Chinese Laundry

Here's a couple pictures from Baiyun Mountain

Here's how you get your laundry back in China. Beautifully folded in air tight plastic bags.

More outings with Keira

Sorry I haven't blogged a lot. With all the activities and trying to keep an eye on Keira, it's hard to use the computer.


Keira is a constant source of entertainment and joy to both of us. As you saw from that video yesterday, she was walking all over the place and laughing when Janet opened the door. Today she finally used a high chair for a whole meal. She is so cute. She smiled like she was so proud of herself.

We went to the Guangzhou museum yesterday and ordered two hand painted Chinese scrolls with her Chinese name painted on them. We're supposed to get them today. We also went to the Jade and Pearl market.

I wound up buying a bunch of DVDs for $2 a piece. Some of them aren't even out on DVD like Blood Diamond, The Departed, Borat, Casino Royale and Babel. I checked them out on my DVD player on the laptop and the quality seems really good but they're obviously bootlegs. Some of them are Russian.

We went to Baiyun Mountain today and went up in a cable car. It was really nice up there. Lots of people playing hacky sack. Hackysack is played everywhere you look... on street corners, in alleys and especially in parks. It's played with a feather with weights on the end. I bought a few. I took a bunch of video.


A lot of old Chinese women are really nice and come up to us and smile and give us a thumbs up when they see Keira bundled up. They get mad if they see a baby in our group that isn't bundled up. Even when it's 72 degrees outside. We also went to an aviary which was reall nice.

From here on, it's just paperwork for the US embassy. We get the visa on Friday!

We fly at 9:00 PM Friday night and arrive at 5:30 PM at LAX. That's when Keira becomes a US citizen!

We've created a Monster

Well today Keira went from just walking a few feet to me to walking all over the hotel room. As you can see from this video we have a little monster on our hands. Wish us luck!

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